$50 scratch-off ticket turns into $1 million for Florida woman

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A 50-year-old Florida lady is $820,000 richer after shopping for a $50 scratch-off lottery ticket at a deli in Apopka, a metropolis outdoors of Orlando.

Florenda Zelaya claimed her $1 million prize from the 500X The Money Scratch-Off sport Thursday at lottery headquarters in Tallahassee.

She took her winnings as a one-time, lump-sum cost of $820,000. All In One Deli in Apopka will get a $2,000 bonus fee for promoting the profitable ticket.

The $50 sport incorporates a high prize of $25 million. The sport, launched on Feb. 28, 2022, has already awarded one of many $25 million prizes, however there nonetheless is one remaining, in keeping with the Florida Lottery.

So far as the thousands and thousands? There are 160 whole prizes, 54 have been awarded, which suggests there are nonetheless 106 up for grabs. Prizes whole greater than $1.5 billion.

Based on the Florida Lottery, the sport’s total odds of profitable are 1-in-4.50.

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Lottery officers say it’s the largest ever provided on a Florida Scratch-Off sport and declare it has one of the best odds for gamers to change into an “prompt millionaire.”